I would like to refuse mail from any account created less than a week ago Well, each time I need to put my email address in some form, I create a new account on the fly on my own domain. So basically when I write an email to someone who has never heard of me, chances are, my account is less than a minute old... This is to avoid spam coming back and tracking down who abuses my trust. How is it wrong ?
I pray that all the Slashdotters who complain about stories like this (and who are citizens the USA) are going to use their right to vote this November to make their voices heard. And pray tell us how, when the two party system takes the same money from the same lobbyists to pass the same laws no matter who wins ?
There is no such thing as a 'color accurate display'. What you can do is calibrate your display with a color calibrator such as the Spyder3 which creates a color profile which is then used by your graphic card/Operating system to render accurate colors.
We can get them to pay US taxes and buy other goods and services in the US, or we can just ship our money overseas You are absolutely right. I worked several years in the US on a J-1 (researcher) visa. When I left I had accumulated absolutely no money, so _all_ I made stayed in the US economy. No, I'm not bitter, I had lots of fun while there.
I utterly hate the aliasing in Linux (KDE), it's just like trying to read blurry text. How can I make the fonts look exactly like in Windows without the wrongly named ClearType ? Can I copy the ttf files over ? Is there some option to make it sharp ?
Anyways, flying cars are a stupid idea. Three dimensional traffic would be a major headache Quite the opposite. First, radars and visual work a lot better when you have a couple dots in empty space than when you have a moving car in the middle of parked cars, trees, metal barriers with lots of echoes, bystanders with no echos, small furry animals that are better crushed than having the car swerve to avoid them, etc... that all need to be taken in consideration.
Then rules are easier to set up: areas to go up or down or in certain directions can be set precisely with a GPS (of course, don't allow the operator to actually fly the thing and screw up the rules).
And finally collision avoidance is about trivial: just move left or down or anywhere. On a road you have nowhere to go, all you can do is to try to shed as much excess kinetic energy as you can before the impact. The main advantage of ground cars is when it breaks down: just park by the side of the road vs plummet to your death.
Could you please point me to an explanation on what those 5-5-5-15 RAM timings are, and most important how to set them in your BIOS depending on your mobo, processor, RAM model, bus type, etc...?
I never could find a clear tutorial so I always left the default settings in place after locking the boot a few times. Thanks
Thanks for the detailed answer. I wasn't dissing Erlang, I think it's really cool that there are 'highly different' languages around, and I also think that highly parallel languages are the thing of the future, hence the reason why I gave it a try. But I've been programming 'C'-like for almost 30 years and old habits die hard (I could never understand how to do even one line of Prolog for instance).
I tried Erlang it 2~3 years ago, so it may have evolved since then. My remark about the lack of executable was more in the sense of: is it possible to give an Erlang application to someone else and have them run simply ? At the time I couldn't figure out how to do that without having to install the whole development toolkit. Either a statically linked executable, or an installer would do, otherwise it remains a toy/research tool. But, hey, Java requires a virtual machine too and it even managed to succeed (something that surprises me a lot).
Side question: are there any commercial or open-source application in Erlang I may find inspiration from ? (yes, I know about the telephone switches, but I can hardly run that on my PC). Anyway, good luck to Erlang and I hope it crushes Perl C;-)
I agree with you about Erlang and really wanted to get into it. I spent a few days toying with it. Then I noticed that you can't produce an executable file, although it's compiled: it has to run within its environment application. Big no-no. Then it's excruciatingly slow. Then it has virtually no useful libraries. Within one year of existence, Python or Ruby had 50 times more libraries available. In other words I couldn't figure out what to do with it, just like with Logo's turtle after you've taken it around the screen a few times.
Comics, like their related media of novels and cinema, must be allowed to tell complete stories. In Europe, most good comics are one-shots. In the US you have to wade through 214 weeks of miniseries that stop without ending and change artist 3 times and scenarist 6 times. I won't read a series until it's _finished_.
Fuck superheroes, frankly. The notion that these things dominate an entire genre is absurd. Can't agree with you more.
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I've read thousands of comics, but I've never been able to get past page 3 of Maus: the drawing is absolutely horrible, worthy of a teenager with a cheap leaky pen. Maybe the story is great, but the drawing just put me off completely. I was also put off at first by the drawings of Satrapi (Persepolis, of which they made a movie which was even Oscar nominated) but got used to them and the great story.
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US comics are highly niche specific: it's basically all about superheroes. And I can't think of anything more boring than superheros: no identification, no point and lots of random garbage (with the exception of Shanower and Vaughan-Guerra-Marzan and too few others)... Each country has its own comics culture, true, but some have a lot more variety.
Let's see, between Belgium (which has a highly rich comics history), France, Italy and Spain I can think of the following off the top of my head: Abolin-Pont, Arleston (Troy, Lanfeust, Askell), Barbucci-Canepa (Sky Doll), Corbeyran, Berthet-Yann (Pin-up), Bilal, Binet (les Bidochons), Bobillo (Bird), Bonifay, Boucq, Bourgeon (Les passagers du vent), Buchet (Sillage), Cailleteau, Caza (Arkadi), Cestac, DavidB, Desberg, Dethan (Horus), Druillet, Dufaux, Formosa, Franquin, Froideval (Lune noire), Gal (Arn), Geluck, Gibrat, Juan Gimenez, Giraud/Moebius, Girod (Wanted), Griffo, Houot, Jacamon-Matz (Le Tueur), Jodorowsky, Kraehn, Larcenet, Ledroit, Liberatore, Loisel, Le Tendre, Manara, Marini, Marvano, Meziere, Ortiz-Segura, Peeters-Schuiten (Citées obscures), Ptiluc, Puech, Rosinski (Thorgal), Rossi (Tiresias), Satrapi, Van Hamme, Reiser, Segreles (Mercenaire), Servais, Sokal, Stalner, Tacito (666), Tardi, Tillier-Tehy, Toth-Bernet-Abuli (Torpedo), Vink, Vuillemin, Yslaire-Balac (Sambre).
Why is it that some countries have had laws dealing with this for the last frigging 30 years while others still can't put 2 and 2 together ?!? Basically it says that government agencies can collect whatever they want, but they are forbidden to merge their files/databases with other agencies. If you have a _social security_ number (= medical record), it can't be matched to your identity card number. And can't be matched to your tax account. And can't be matched to your bank account. Or you driver's license. Etc...
You need to give more paperwork for anything gov-related, but it's also harder to have your identity stolen. And nobody gives a fuck that we have mandated ID cards.
If you make a tear in balloons fabric - it will slowly descend as the helium inside the balloon leaks. No.
I spent a year launching weather balloons from Antarctica. They take about one hour to reach 20~30km altitude, then the latex tears up (remember, as the pressure decreases, the volume increases) and the plummet to the ground in less then 10 minutes. In rare cases what's left of the latex will form a parachute shape and they will drop slower.
If you fill them more, they go up faster and blow up earlier (as the latex reaches its maximum thinness earlier). If you underfill them, you get less buoyancy, and they can float for a long time if they don't go up to where they'll pop, which is probably what you want here.
But I have to remind you that:
latex is expensive (at least for daily balloon launches, you are OK with your S&M fantasies).
helium is very expensive and world quantities are limited and will run out before petroleum does.
a standard weather balloon can lift only about 200 grams, which pretty much limits the quantity of battery and thus the wifi power range you can carry.
All that being said I think it's a neat idea, but not as much as solar powered ultra-light drones.
When I was in Antarctica [for about 3 years] I used to never call. I disliked the echo, the 1s lag, the price and just about everything related to voice communication. When talking on the phone, relayed by a bunch of sats, the basic rule was: don't interrupt. Email ruled.
When I hear people claim that natural selection doesn't work on people and that evolution doesn't apply anymore to the human species, I bring forth some examples like the drunk teenagers crashing their cars (main cause of teenage mortality). Those won't breed. Repeat for enough generations and drunk driving will be mostly solved through evolution: those remaining won't be as stupid.
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There is no such thing as a 'color accurate display'. What you can do is calibrate your display with a color calibrator such as the Spyder3 which creates a color profile which is then used by your graphic card/Operating system to render accurate colors.
I utterly hate the aliasing in Linux (KDE), it's just like trying to read blurry text. How can I make the fonts look exactly like in Windows without the wrongly named ClearType ? Can I copy the ttf files over ? Is there some option to make it sharp ?
You forget the version of Dune from Jodoroski, Dali, Giger (of Alien fame), Moebius... the greatest movie that never was. Google it up.
It's called LabView ! Where spaghetti code actually looks like spaghetti...
And how useful do you think the wheel is on rainforests or andean trails ? Answer: not very much. At all.
Easier to do on a penguin...
And, shameless plug, I also have some nice pictures to look at.
Then rules are easier to set up: areas to go up or down or in certain directions can be set precisely with a GPS (of course, don't allow the operator to actually fly the thing and screw up the rules).
And finally collision avoidance is about trivial: just move left or down or anywhere. On a road you have nowhere to go, all you can do is to try to shed as much excess kinetic energy as you can before the impact. The main advantage of ground cars is when it breaks down: just park by the side of the road vs plummet to your death.
I never could find a clear tutorial so I always left the default settings in place after locking the boot a few times. Thanks
I tried Erlang it 2~3 years ago, so it may have evolved since then. My remark about the lack of executable was more in the sense of: is it possible to give an Erlang application to someone else and have them run simply ? At the time I couldn't figure out how to do that without having to install the whole development toolkit. Either a statically linked executable, or an installer would do, otherwise it remains a toy/research tool. But, hey, Java requires a virtual machine too and it even managed to succeed (something that surprises me a lot).
Side question: are there any commercial or open-source application in Erlang I may find inspiration from ? (yes, I know about the telephone switches, but I can hardly run that on my PC). Anyway, good luck to Erlang and I hope it crushes Perl C;-)
Maybe it needs an entry for us regular programmer...
I agree with you about Erlang and really wanted to get into it. I spent a few days toying with it. Then I noticed that you can't produce an executable file, although it's compiled: it has to run within its environment application. Big no-no. Then it's excruciatingly slow. Then it has virtually no useful libraries. Within one year of existence, Python or Ruby had 50 times more libraries available. In other words I couldn't figure out what to do with it, just like with Logo's turtle after you've taken it around the screen a few times.
I've read thousands of comics, but I've never been able to get past page 3 of Maus: the drawing is absolutely horrible, worthy of a teenager with a cheap leaky pen. Maybe the story is great, but the drawing just put me off completely. I was also put off at first by the drawings of Satrapi (Persepolis, of which they made a movie which was even Oscar nominated) but got used to them and the great story.
Let's see, between Belgium (which has a highly rich comics history), France, Italy and Spain I can think of the following off the top of my head: Abolin-Pont, Arleston (Troy, Lanfeust, Askell), Barbucci-Canepa (Sky Doll), Corbeyran, Berthet-Yann (Pin-up), Bilal, Binet (les Bidochons), Bobillo (Bird), Bonifay, Boucq, Bourgeon (Les passagers du vent), Buchet (Sillage), Cailleteau, Caza (Arkadi), Cestac, DavidB, Desberg, Dethan (Horus), Druillet, Dufaux, Formosa, Franquin, Froideval (Lune noire), Gal (Arn), Geluck, Gibrat, Juan Gimenez, Giraud/Moebius, Girod (Wanted), Griffo, Houot, Jacamon-Matz (Le Tueur), Jodorowsky, Kraehn, Larcenet, Ledroit, Liberatore, Loisel, Le Tendre, Manara, Marini, Marvano, Meziere, Ortiz-Segura, Peeters-Schuiten (Citées obscures), Ptiluc, Puech, Rosinski (Thorgal), Rossi (Tiresias), Satrapi, Van Hamme, Reiser, Segreles (Mercenaire), Servais, Sokal, Stalner, Tacito (666), Tardi, Tillier-Tehy, Toth-Bernet-Abuli (Torpedo), Vink, Vuillemin, Yslaire-Balac (Sambre).
OK, so you got Frank Miller, so what !
Why is it that some countries have had laws dealing with this for the last frigging 30 years while others still can't put 2 and 2 together ?!? Basically it says that government agencies can collect whatever they want, but they are forbidden to merge their files/databases with other agencies. If you have a _social security_ number (= medical record), it can't be matched to your identity card number. And can't be matched to your tax account. And can't be matched to your bank account. Or you driver's license. Etc... You need to give more paperwork for anything gov-related, but it's also harder to have your identity stolen. And nobody gives a fuck that we have mandated ID cards.
I spent a year launching weather balloons from Antarctica. They take about one hour to reach 20~30km altitude, then the latex tears up (remember, as the pressure decreases, the volume increases) and the plummet to the ground in less then 10 minutes. In rare cases what's left of the latex will form a parachute shape and they will drop slower.
If you fill them more, they go up faster and blow up earlier (as the latex reaches its maximum thinness earlier). If you underfill them, you get less buoyancy, and they can float for a long time if they don't go up to where they'll pop, which is probably what you want here.
But I have to remind you that:
- latex is expensive (at least for daily balloon launches, you are OK with your S&M fantasies).
- helium is very expensive and world quantities are limited and will run out before petroleum does.
- a standard weather balloon can lift only about 200 grams, which pretty much limits the quantity of battery and thus the wifi power range you can carry.
All that being said I think it's a neat idea, but not as much as solar powered ultra-light drones.Same here, except that I don't use photophop. I do a lot of RAW image processing with SilkyPix. I wonder if that works on Wine. I'll have to try it.
When I was in Antarctica [for about 3 years] I used to never call. I disliked the echo, the 1s lag, the price and just about everything related to voice communication. When talking on the phone, relayed by a bunch of sats, the basic rule was: don't interrupt. Email ruled.
About Jesus, Buddah and more, I recommend watching the intelligent movie The man from Earth.
When I hear people claim that natural selection doesn't work on people and that evolution doesn't apply anymore to the human species, I bring forth some examples like the drunk teenagers crashing their cars (main cause of teenage mortality). Those won't breed. Repeat for enough generations and drunk driving will be mostly solved through evolution: those remaining won't be as stupid.